Contributed by the Fluids Engineering Division of ASME for publication in the JOURNAL OF FLUIDS ENGINEERING. Manuscript received July 22, 2016; final manuscript received September 19, 2017; published online October 19, 2017. Assoc. Editor: Olivier Coutier-Delgosha.

Abstract

A method for evaluating the transient performance of a turbocharger (TC) is so-called load step tests. In these tests, the load of the engine is increased at constant engine speed and the time measured from the start to the end of the load step is measured. Usually, these tests can be run relatively late in the development process, since hardware needs to be already available. In order to judge the transient TC performance at an earlier stage, engine process simulations are run using maps of compressor and turbine. For the turbine, these maps usually need to be extrapolated, since only a certain range of each speed line can be measured on a standard gas stand. Furthermore, because of the exhaust gas pulsation of the engine, it is known that the turbine performance differs from the steady-state case which the maps rely on. This has to be respected by additional models. Using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations, the transient performance of the turbine can be analyzed independent from steady-state maps. So far, these investigations have been usually performed with a constant turbine speed. In this paper, a method is presented which includes the speed fluctuations of the TC caused by the exhaust pulsations as well as the change in mean speed during the load step by including compressor and engine in the CFD analysis with User-Fortran models. Results for a load step from 21,000 rpm to 196,400 rpm are discussed.

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